A U.S Army soldier pulls security in Bagram, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Prentice C. Martin-BowenIn The North, Afghans Fight Hunger, Not The Taliban -- Yahoo News/Reuters
SANG-I-KHEL, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The United States' decision to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is not against Taliban insurgents but against hunger.
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 additional U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan to tackle an intensifying insurgency across the south and east of the country.
Yet in the relatively peaceful north, Afghans face a different struggle. Severe drought and soaring food prices have left hundreds of thousands of people facing a daily battle to survive the winter.
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